capt ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> garrett: on the cbs evening news this tuesday, nationwide rallies for abortion rights as more states impose new restrictions. americans tell us what they think in a new cbs news poll. >> abortion is health care! >> if they want to make women's health and rights an issue in 2020, well, we say, bring it on. >> my body! my choice! >> flash flooding in the southern plains, the region still reeling from a string of intense storms. >> overnight this creek turned into a river. dozens of homes have been flooded out. >> garrett: former white house counsel skips a house hearing. now another trump aide has been called to testify. >> our subpoenas are not optional. >> reporter: in a cbs news exclusive, as border facilities reach capacity, we are here as the u.s. government is starting

to use airplanes to transport migrants. >> garrett: and a new push to punish parents who improperly store their guns. >> the one thing that you don't get back after you've lost a child is peace. >> garrett: good evening. i'm major garrett. this is our western edition. abortion rights activists made their voices heard today. more than 400 rallies were held coast to coast in opposition to new restrictions on abortion. this year, lawmakers in eight states have passed laws limiting abortion access with the hopes of overturning "roe v. wade," which made abortions legal across the united states. a cbs news poll just out finds 67% of americans want the supreme court to keep "roe v. wade" as is. 28% told us they want it overturned. ed o'keefe has more. >> take your politics out of my uterus! >> reporter: protesters opposed to new abortion restriction took to the streets today in all 50

states. >> vote them out! >> reporter: and on the steps of the u.s. supreme court. why are you here today? >> well, i'm here because i care about abortion access for all women. >> i should not have control over your body. you should not have control over mine. >> these are my kids, and i want them to live in a place where they have equal access to health care that's evidence-based and not legislative-based. >> reporter: the d.c. rally attracted democratic presidential candidates and congressional leaders. >> does this have the potential to become a campaign issue for your party, do you think? >> absolutely, absolutely. when they-- when republicans-- they have shown who they are. >> reporter: a new cbs news poll shows sharp partisan divides remain over "roe v. wade," the 1973 decision that legalized abortion. more than eight in 10 democrats summit the decision, while republicans are more evenly divided. and politics, not gender, seem more likely to influence views on abortion with more than six in 10 men and women in support of keeping "roe v. wade" as it is.

eight states so far this year have passed laws severely limiting abortion rights. one of them is mississippi, where today, a federal judge, appointed by president obama, criticized the so-called heartbeat law during a court hearing. the law bans abortion after six weeks and was passed by a republican legislature and signed by the republican governor. in missouri, the state's republican governor says he'll sign a similar bill this week. the same goes for louisiana, but there, the issue is bipartisan. democratic governor john bel edwards was elected on an anti- abortion rights platform. >> when i ran for governor i said i was pro-life, and so that's something that's consistent. >> reporter: it could take at least a year for one of these state laws to make it here to the supreme court. and now some state leaders are pushing back. wisconsin's democratic governor said today that he'll veto a similar bill that's now up for debate in his state. major. >> garrett: ed o'keefe, thank you very much.

dangerous storms that triggered flash floods and more than two dozen reports of tornadoes are moving east tonight through arkansas, missouri, and illinois. st. louis is bracing for wind gusts nearly 60 miles an hour, hail, and possible tornadoes. rescue teams were busy today in oklahoma and missouri, where floodwaters trapped people in their cars and homes. mireya villarreal is in the hard-hit town of el reno, oklahoma. >> reporter: a night of torrential rain turned into a day of rescues. drivers caught in their cars, families stranded by dangerous floodwaters. more than six inches of rain fell in el reno, just outside oklahoma city, and by midday, this small fire department had launched on a half a dozen rescues. overnight, this creek turned into a river because of the storm system that came through. you can see there is a water rescue happening just behind me, a mother and her child. we understand there have been several rescues in this area, dozens of homes have been flooded out. from the air, a collection of

abandoned cars could be seen submerged by rising waters. fields were flooded over, and homes looked like islands. >> tree came down around me and i couldn't go anywhere, i couldn't see anything, i couldn't tell direction. >> oh my god. >> reporter: this is the same system that spawned more than two dozen reported tornadoes in four states. >> roll your window up. >> reporter: back in oklahoma, brenda rogers rode out the storm in a laundry room. >> and you can see it just coming a little closer, and finally my husband said, "we're going to have to go somewhere." >> reporter: crews are now work around the clock to clean up the aftermath before the next storm moves through this waterlogged landscape. one emergency manager was begging people to stay home because they didn't have enough police officers or barricades to keep drivers away from these flooded waters. major, there is more rain expected for this area later this week, but people here are hopeful that this floodwater will recede by then. >> garrett: mireya, thanks very

much. tonight, more house democrats said they want to launch an impeachment effort after white house counsel don mcgahn skipped a house judiciary committee hearing. late today, that same committee subpoenaed hope hicks, the president's former communications director and top adviser. nancy cordes is at the capitol. >> there's overwhelming evidence of obstructing justice. >> reporter: the democratic dam broke today as a flood of house democrats announced their support for an impeachment inquiry. >> i'm personally much more open to it now than i was even a few months ago. >> reporter: the split came after former white house counsel, don mcgahn, refused to testify today. his lawyer sent this letter instead, "the president has unambiguously directed my client not to comply with congress." >> we will hold this president accountable. one way or the other. >> reporter: judiciary committee chair jerry nadler: >> he told mr. mcgahn to commit crimes on his behalf.

>> reporter: democrats view mcgahn as a key witness to potential obstruction of justice. according to special counsel robert mueller's report, mr. trump repeatedly directed mcgahn to have the special counsel removed. mcgahn refused. >> it was no collusion, and no obstruction. >> reporter: more subpoenas went out today, including one to former white house communications director, hope hicks. but many democrats say it's still too soon to talk impeachment. >> we view it as a moment to investigate and educate. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi agrees. several members tried to change her mind in a meeting last night. >> i asked her why she's against going forward and i asked her to tell us her reasons.an gave mye. >> reporter: do you sense that she could be swayed? >> it's not going to be easy. >> reporter: pelosi has called a meeting with all house democrats tomorrow morning where she'll brief them on the progress of

these congressional probes. she has argued, major, that the investigative powers that go along with an impeachment inquiry aren't worth the inevitable political firestorm, at least not right now. >> garrett: nancy cordes. thanks so very much. police in dallas are investigating a possible link between the murder of a transgender woman last weekend and two other attacks on transgender women. here's mola lenghi. >> reporter: muhlaysia booker, a transgender woman, was found shot to death in a dallas neighborhood this weekend. now dallas police believe her murder may be linked to two other attacks on transgender women. dallas police major vincent weddington: >> the dallas police department is aware there have been three investigations into enin ds. >>eporter: weddingn says all three of the cases have similarities. in april, a transgender woman was stabbed in dallas but survived. in october of 2018, another transgender woman was murdered--

three attacks, zero arrests. >> at this time, we have not established a direct link between these cases. we will work with our federal partners to determine if any of these offenses should be considered hate crimes. >> reporter: just one month before booker was murdered, the 23-year-old was brutally attacked, caught on this cell phone video, after a minor traffic accident. after her attack, booker gave this ominous warning: >> the next time it could be someone else close to you. >> reporter: the human rights campaign tracked at least 26 transgender deaths due to violence last year, five this year. the majority of the victims were black, transgender women. meanwhile, dallas police are asking for the public's help with their cases, major. >> garrett: mola lenghi, thanks so very much.uis the college admissions scandal. gordon caplan admitted to paying $75,000 to have his daughter's answers corrected on her a.c.t. exam. vineyard owner augustin huneeus inflathis daughter s.t.ssffato

water polo player to get into u.s.c. a 16-year-old boy from guatemala survived the 1,000-mile journey to the u.s. border but died yesterday in u.s. custody. now some in congress are demanding answers. omar villafranca reports. >> nobody had died for 10 years, and in the last six months, you've had five deaths. >> reporter: the congressional hispanic caucus is calling for a federal investigation after the fifth migrant child since december died after arriving at the u.s. border. the latest is 16-year-old carlos hernandez of guatemala, an unaccompanied minor. the teen was apprehended at the texas-mexico border last week on may 13. on may 19, he told the medical staff he didn't feel well and was given tamiflu. he was found dead the next day. cbs news spoke to hernandez's brother in new jersey who just

wants to know what happened. "the hardest part about it all is what happened to him because we never thought this would happen in a place where he's supposed to be in a better place." the five central american boys and girls who have died ranged in age from two and a half to 16 years old. four died in government custody. the youngest died in an el paso hospital after being released by border patrol. peter shea is the executive director of the center for human rights and constitutional law. >> if these were white children coming from western european countries, i think that there would be a far greater outroar than there is. >> reporter: acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan addressed the overcrowded southern border patrol facilities on sunday. >> i'm very concerned about these conditions. these are not appropriate facilities for families and children in particular. these are police stations built for single adults. >> reporter: to ease the overcrowding, d.h.s. is now flying migrants to border cities

across the u.s. cbs news was the only network on the tarmac in brownsville, texas, as border patrol and ice officials loaded three bus loads of migrants on to a jet. we blurred everyone's faces to protect their identities. and we're starting to see some family units-- moms, dads, and younger kids. from here they're checking their pockets to see if they have anything in them, and then they're loading them on to an airplane, and from there that plane will take off and take them to a destination where they will be further processed. these migrants were taken on a short flight, roughly 400 miles, to del rio, texas. ice told us that's about $9,000 an hour. a united nations monitor asked the trump administration for a formal invitation to visit u.s. border patrol facilities, but the trump administration has ignored those requests. major. >> garrett: omar villafranca, thanks very much. we turn now to the issue of gun safety.

a new study says thousands of young lives could be saved if adults took proper care of their weapons, and there is a growing movement to lock up parents who don't lock up their guns. nikki battiste has more. >> the one thing that you don't get back after you've lost a child is peace. >> reporter: kristin and mike song are still in disbelief that their 15-year-old son, ethan, is gone. he accidentally shot himself last year when he was at a friend's house playing with guns. >> they were stored in a cardboard box, along with the ammo. there was a gun lock in there, but the keys were in there. >> reporter: the songs had no idea the home had firearms, and they say careless gun storage cost their son his life. >> ethan pulled the trigger, and he was shot in the head, so he really had no chance of survival. >> reporter: a recent study by harvard researchers estimated up to 32% of youth firearm deaths by unintentional injury and suicide could be prevented if

guns were properly locked and stored and ammunition is kept separately. only three states and washington, d.c. make unsafe storage, regardless of whether a child ever touches the gun, a crime. there is no federal law for safe gun storage... >> this war is killing our loved ones. >> reporter: ...but today the song family is fighting for one in their son's name. "ethan's law," introduced to congress today, states that unsafe storage of a firearm resulting in injury or death of a minor is a crime and punishable by up to five years in prison. >> you want to keep the gun safe and secured. >> reporter: kevin guarderas, the owner of long shot pistol and rifle, says security storage devices can keep guns locked away. >> a code, and that will pop open, and they can reach in and take the gun. >> reporter: yet accessed quickly. some opponents of safe storage laws say it's an infringement on their freedom. >> i respect people's rights to own a gun. and i know that my son's dead now, and i don't want that to happen to anyone else's son.

so i think there are reasonable limitations that we can talk about together and start a dialogue that could save thousands of lives. >> reporter: in a statement to cbs news, the n.r.a. says there is no scientific evidence that government-mandated, one-size- fits-all storage schemes reduce juvenile accidental firearm deaths or suicides. but they say it could make it harder for law-abiding citizens to protect themselves, major. >> garrett: nikki battiste, thanks so much. next on the cbs evening news, new questions about the safety of sightseeing planes after another deadly crash in alaska. later, this could be the future of mail delivery. but who is at the wheel? wheel? the exercise. the fiber. month after month, and ilha bly pain and recurring constipation. so i ask my doctor what else i could do, and i said yesss to linzess. linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation.

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